200 
The expense per bushel was, oats, 40 cents; corn, 44; potatoes, 20; 
roots, 13; the profit per bushel, oats, 6 cents; corn, 16; potatoes, 20: 
roots, 12; the average profit per acre, about $11.11; ; total profit, $546. 49: 
the total of acres cultivated, 491. 
PROFIT IN FEEDING SHEEP.—At a recent meeting of the Farmers’ 
Club in Batavia, Genesee County, New York, Mr. George Burt pre- 
sented the following definite statistics relative to the cost and profit of 
feeding sheep for market: He paid for 200 sheep for fattening, $915; 
for keep, two months, £64; 8 tons of hay, at $16 per ton, $120; 4 loads 
of corn-stalks, $16; 148 bushels of corn, 60 cents per bushel, $88.80 ; 
one barrel of salt, $3; interest on money invested, $20. 75s total 
$1,227.55. January ‘A, ‘he sold 171 sheep, at 8 cents per pound, $1, 522.405 
28, at 64 cents per pound, $181.79; one pelt, $1.50; total, $1, 705. 69; 
protit on the 200 sheep, $478. 14. 
Mr. Burt holds that sheep, in winter, should be kept in small flocks, 
less, rather than more, than 65 in a flock, in yards where they can have 
free access, at all times, to water; that they should be kept free from 
all disturbing or exciting causes; that open sheds are better for them 
than a close barn ; and that it is best to feed grain to them whole. 
YIELD IN PENNSYLVANIA.—The reports of the several members of 
the Brady Agricultural Society, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, make 
the average yield of the section represented by them to be as follows: 
wheat, per acre, 133 bushels; corn in the ear, 871; oats, 362; potatoes, 
611; clov er-seed, 1; hay, 14 tons. The highest yields per acre reported 
were, wheat, 24 bushels ; ; corn in the ear, 133; oats, 46. 
MAD DOGS IN TENNESSEE.—A recent report from our correspondent 
in Sevier County, Tennessee, represents that the object of greatest 
dread in that county was mad dogs, of which more than twenty had 
been killed within the previous two weeks. There had, as yet, been no 
human victim, but many hogs and some oxen and cows had been bitten 
and gone mad. 
AGRICULTURAL FEATURES IN KANSAS.—Our correspondent in Chase 
County, Kansas, sends us a description of the geographical features, 
soil, climate, and productions of that county, of which the following is 
a condensation: In the valleys, which abound, the soil is a black loam 
from 3 to 30 feet deep. The upland is all covered with limestone soil 
from 1 to 3 feet deep. Along the streams there is timber varying from 
a mere border to belts half a mile in width. The varieties include burr- 
oak, walnut, hickory, white and red elm, cottonwood, mulberry, honey- 
locust, sycamore, box-elder, willow, &c. On the upland there is no tim- 
ber; except in the bottoms, limestone extends all over the country. AS 
the land rises from the valleys it crops out at different levels in three 
ranges of ledges. Above a certain height stones disappear, but there 
is scarcely a location where the finest stone for building cannot be found 
within the distance ofa mile. In the western part of the county gypsum 
is found. 
According to statistics, less rain falls here than farther east, but the 
most of that ; which does fail comes during the growing season, June being 
the rainy and August the dry month. There is scarcely any rain, and 
but little snow, in winter. The water from wells, which average about 
30 feet in depth, is excellent. This is probably the best-watered county 
in the State. The Cottonwood River, running very nearly through the 
center of the county, averages 100 feet in width, (banks about 30 feet 
high,) and this main artery is fed by almost innumerable smaller streams 
on either side. 
